Lawyer Held, Accused of Assaulting Girl: Camden Police Found the Teen Near the Home of William Bostic
Posted on: Tuesday, 31 January 2006, 12:00 CST
By Troy Graham, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Jan. 31--A Camden defense lawyer was arrested yesterday morning and charged with hitting a 17-year-old girl with a wrench and putting a gun to her head, authorities said.
Around 3:30 a.m., police officers spotted the distressed girl walking near William Bostic's Morgan Village home and stopped to check on her. She said she had been assaulted a short time earlier in the home on Lakeshore Drive.
There was no word from prosecutors on what the 65-year-old lawyer and the 17-year-old girl were doing in his house at that hour of the morning.
The girl, whose identity was not released, was not related to Bostic, police said. She was treated at a local hospital and released.
Bostic, accused of putting a .38-caliber pistol to the girl's head, was charged with aggravated assault, endangering the welfare of a minor, and two gun charges.
He was held last night at the Camden County jail on $40,000 bail.
Bostic, who maintains a law office on Benson Street, behind Cooper University Hospital, has been a well-known lawyer in the city for years.
He defended former Mayor Arnold W. Webster in the late 1990s on charges that he misused school district funds. Webster, also a former superintendent of schools, was convicted.
Bostic also served in Camden City Democratic politics and ran unsuccessfully as an independent for county clerk in 1996.
He was the Camden County adjuster for nearly 10 years before losing the position in the early 1990s.
Contact staff writer Troy Graham at 856-779-3893 or tgraham@phillynews.com.
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